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Synonyms for optimistic

Most common

up-beat rosy rose-colored cheerful sanguine

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Rosy — expecting the best in all possible ways

up-beat, rosy, rose-colored

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Expecting the best in all possible ways.

  2. adj. 2

    Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking for conflicts only when changes need to be written back.

Related words

Word family
optimal optimism optimist

Example sentences

  • rosy His prospects are not so rosy as you suppose.
  • cheerful She is loved by everybody because she is cheerful.
  • sanguine They were sanguine about the company's prospects.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
optimisticsteady
rosyrising
cheerfulrising
sanguinesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
rosy2
7 letters
hopeful2
8 letters
positive3, cheerful2, sanguine2
11 letters
affirmative4, sanguineous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rosy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
optimiste
Italiano
ottimista
Deutsch
optimistisch